October 24, 2013 (Thursday) at 5:30pmLocation: Room 240, JHFCClaudia Koonz, Professor Emeritus of History, Peabody Family ChairGiovanna Merli, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Global Health and Sociology, Sanford School of Public PolicyErika Weinthal, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Associate Dean of International Programs, Nicholas School of the EnvironmentChina’s Presence in Africa: Reflections from Different Disciplinary Perspectives

April 11, 2013 at 5:30pmLocation: Room A103, Social Science Research Institute
Professor Raphael Kaplinsky, Open UniversityThe Governance of Dynamic Rents, Inclusion and Exclusion: Power in Global Value Chains

February 25 at 4:00pm (Friday)Location: Room 04, Sanford School of Public Policy
Professor Barry Eichengreen, University of California at Berkeley
The Dollar, the Crisis, and the Future of the International Monetary SystemClick here for Professor Eichengreen’s biography

Fall 2007

The Fall 2007 University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy series was sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies with funding or support from the US Department of Education and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.

Spring 2007

The 2006-2007 University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy series was sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies with funding or support from the US Department of Education, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Social Science Research Institute, Duke Law School, and Sanford Institute for Public Policy.

March 20, 2007Henrik Enderlein, Duke University and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin“Banking Alone: The Decline in International Monetary Cooperation and Implications for Global Economic Governance”
Background Reading: Professor Enderlein’s background notes on the subject.

(Rescheduled for Spring 2007)Nicole Simonelli, New York University,“International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement Making Process”

December 5, 2006(Tuesday) 7:00—8:30pmPeter Katzenstein, Cornell University“The American Imperium and Soft Power in World Politics”
Background Reading: Please see Chapters 1 and 7 of Professor Katzenstein’s book, A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Spring 2006

The Spring 2006 University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy series was sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies with funding or support from the US Department of Education. Additional support from the Duke Center for International Development and Women’s Studies, Duke University.

February 21, 2006(Tuesday) 7:00—8:30pmBarbara Koremenos, University of Michigan“If Only Half of International Agreements Have Dispute Resolution Provisions, Which Half Needs Explaining?”
Background Reading: Background Reading

October 18, 2005(Tuesday) 7:00—8:30pmLocation: Breedlove Room, Perkins LibraryLawrence Broz, University of California-San Diego“Changing IMF Quotas: The Role of the United States Congress”
Background Reading: Reading

November 8, 2005(Tuesday) 7:00—8:30pmLocation: Breedlove Room, Perkins LibraryKal Raustiala, UCLA Law School“The Evolution of Territoriality in an Age of Globalization”
Background Reading: Reading

Spring 2005

February 8, 2005(Tuesday) 6:30pmLiesbet Hooghe, Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,“Do International Civil Servants Go Native? Limits to International Socialization”
Background Reading: Reading

March 21, 2005(Monday) 3:00-5:00pmLocation: Room 240, John Hope Franklin CenterEmma Rothschild, Centre for History and Economics King’s College, Cambridge“Sovereignty and the End of Empire”Part of the University Seminar on Globalization, Equity and Democratic Governance. Co-sponsored by the Political Theory Colloquium
Background Reading: Reading

March 22, 2005(Tuesday) 6:30pmJames Caporaso, Political Science, University of Washington“Rights Through Thick and Thin (or “Polanyi in Luxembourg”): Prospects for Market-Driven Rights in the EU”
Background Reading: Reading

April 5, 2005(Tuesday) 6:30pmPhil Cerny, Political Science, Rutgers University“Globalization at the Micro Level: The Uneven Pluralization Of World Politics”
Background Reading: Reading

April 19, 2005(Tuesday)Gretchen Helmke, Political Science, University of Rochester“Inducing Independence: A Strategic Model of Lending and Legal Reform”
Background Reading: Reading

Spring 2001

January 9, 2001(Tuesday) 7:30pmLocation: Room 230/232, John Hope Franklin CenterDaniel Nielson, Duke University and Michael Tierney, College of William and Mary“Principals and Interests: Agency Theory and Multilateral Development Bank Lending Since 1980.”

January 23, 2001(Tuesday) 12:15pmLocation: Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago“States and the New Geography of Power: Denationalized State Agendas and Privatized Norm-Making.”

RELATED EVENT: March 8, 2001(Thursday ) 5:30—7:00pmLocation: Room 240, John Hope Franklin CenterKathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota)“From Santiago to Seattle: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Restructuring of World Politics.”This event is sponsored by the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies working group “Political and Economic Regimes.”

October 3, 2000(Tuesday) 7:30pmLocation: Carpenter Board Room, Perkins LibraryJames D. Cox, Duke Law School“Does the Gang of Four Have It Right: Empirical Studies of the Relationship between the Cost of Capital and Regulation”

October 23, 2000(Monday) 8:00pmLocation: Room 230/232, John Hope Franklin CenterDani Rodrik , Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University“Development Strategies for the Next Century”

March 21, 2000(Tuesday) 7:30pmLocation: Carpenter Board Room, Perkins LibraryMichael Zürn, University of Bremen“Democratic Governance Beyond the National State: The EU and Other International Institutions”

April 21-23, 2000Location: Carpenter Board Room, Perkins Library“Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes”Co-sponsored conference led by Steven Wilkinson, Duke with faculty from the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, New York University, Stanford University, Harvard University, and other schools. Participants included Robert Bates, Harvard, James Fearon, Stanford, David Laitin, Stanford and Ian Lustick, Pennsylvania.

Fall 1999

September 30, 1999(Thursday) 12:00pmLocation: Breedlove Room, Perkins LibraryLayna Mosley, University of Notre Dame and Sarah Brooks, Duke UniversityDiscussing their research on the interplay of domestic politics and international markets in state policy reform across developing and advanced industrial democracies.

November 16, 1999(Tuesday) 7:30pmLocation: Carpenter Board Room, Perkins LibraryPeter Lange and John Aldrich, Duke UniversityDiscussing the research of their cluster on “Globalization, Democracy & Policy”

November 23, 1999(Tuesday) 12:00pmLocation: Breedlove Room, Perkins LibraryElias Dinopoulos , University of Florida“Intra-Industry Trade and Wage Income Inequality”Sponsored by the Workshops on International Economics and Macroeconomics, Duke Department of Economics.

March 22, 1999(Monday) 12:15pmLocation: Breedlove Room, Perkins LibraryIlene Grabel, International Economics, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver“The Political Economy of ‘Policy Credibility': The New Classical Macroeconomics and the Remaking of Emerging Economies”